The New Black by The Mavrix - Official Music Video

In a first ever musical collaboration between South Africa and Palestine, South African band, The Mavrix, and Palestinian Oud player, Mohammed Omar, have released a music video called "The New Black". The song is taken from The Mavrix' upcoming album,"Pura Vida", due for release in June 2012.

Written and composed by Jeremy Karodia and Ayub Mayet, the song was a musical reaction to the horror of the Gaza Massacre of 2008/2009 and then subsequently inspired by the book "Mornings in Jenin", authored by Susan Abulhawa. Mayet had penned the first lyrics in 2009 after the Massacre and the song went into musical hibernation. Having read the novel, "Mornings in Jenin", he then re-wrote the lyrics and the song evolved into its current version.

Haidar Eid, a Gaza based BDS activist and friend of the band, heard the song in 2011 and urged the band to do a collaboration with Palestinian Oud player, Mohamed Omar. He also suggested that the band do a video highlighting the collaboration between South African and Palestinian musicians and also the similarities in the two struggles.

The song was recorded by The Mavrix in South Africa whilst Mohamed recorded the Oud in Gaza and, although never having had the opportunity to meet, the musical interplay between the musicians so far apart illustrates the empathy the musicians feel in solidarity with each other.

Produced by The Palestinian Solidarity Alliance (South Africa) and the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) along with written endorsements from Haidar Eid of PACBI, Omar Barghouti of the BDS Movement, Ali Abunimah of Electronic Intifada and Susan Abulhawa, author of "Mornings in Jenin", the song represents a message of support from South Africans, who having transgressed and crossed over their own oppression under apartheid, stand in solidarity with Palestinians who are currently experiencing their own oppression under Israeli apartheid

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[Keith Hutchinson]

Speak of the unspoken, Speak for the nameless, Speak the truth, speak for justice. A heart wrenching video and song and prose. Greed, Power, Money, Selfish destruction of life, even of those that have no memories yet, the children, the babies, the unborn. May God have mercy on us and the perpetrators. Thx Mavrix,Mohamed and Peter Pearlson

[Sam Richards]

Powerful song. Very well done. I wish this song never had to be written and performed, however. Perhaps one day...

[israelstinks]

Injustice against one is injustice against all. No truths can be used to legitimize Zionazi Israel's existence or its racist, brutal, criminal, terrorist behavior. Share the truth. Truth is the single greatest existential threat to ZIonazi Israel. Share the truth. In solidarity with Palestine and will all people struggling to achieve liberty and justice..

[MrFritz023]

Beautiful song, thanks!

FREE PALESTINE!!!

[Rosy Pà]

Peace <3



[Eileen Fleming]

"Financed with U.S. aid at a cost of $1.5 million per mile, the Israeli wall prevents residents from receiving health care and emergency medical services. In other areas, the barrier separates farmers from their olive groves which have been their families' sole livelihood for generations." [Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Jan/Feb. 2007]

I have been to BOTH sides of The Apartheid Wall- 7 times since 2005 and I am Eileen Fleming for US HOUSE and I approve of all of my messages.

[Eileen Fleming]

An apartheid society is much more than just a ‘settler colony’. It involves specific forms of oppression that actively strip the original inhabitants of any rights at all, whereas civilian members of the invader caste are given all kinds of sumptuous privileges.

The Wall is designed to crush the human spirit as much as to enclose the Palestinians in ghettos. Its route cuts huge swathes into the West Bank to incorporate into Israel the illegal Jewish colonies.

[Rx4pabulum2]

This is my time to be your conscience.

This is my time to be your conscience.

This is my time to be your conscience.

Identify with Palestinian struggle as if it were your own.

Be angry. Feel the pain and despair.

[majelispersindonesia]

i am sad hearing this song i hope and pray to the jesus liberty plestin people

[ahmad omar]

big like

[Mariastella Argenti]

Great work. I thank you so much <3

[straightshooterable]

Prophetic words:

Lessing J. Rosenwald, president of the American Council for Judaism, 1944: "The concept of a racial state - the Hitlerian concept - is repugnant to the civilized world, as witness the fearful global war in which we are involved. . . , I urge that we do nothing to set us back on the road to the past. To project at this time the creation of a Jewish state or commonwealth is to launch a singular innovation in world affairs which might well have incalculable consequences."